Martha H. Vandelene, 91, Hartford City, passed away at 4:40 p.m. on Monday, July 15, at Lutheran Hospital of Indiana in Fort Wayne. She was born on Monday, June 12, 1922, in Hartford City.

She married Robert F. Vandelene on Saturday, Aug. 30, 1941 in Indianapolis. Martha worked at Montgomery Ward in Hartford City and Farm Bureau Co-Op in Blackford, Randolph and Jay counties for 14 years, before retiring from the Jay County Co-Op in 1982. She was a former member of the Northwest Skeigh & Carriage Association and the Blackford County Historical Society. She had been a resident of Heritage Pointe in Warren, since 2005. Martha was a member of the Trinity United Methodist Church in Hartford City.